Sheriff Mark Lamb

So I loved all that stuff.

My dad never owned guns, but I kept buying guns.

Like I bought a lever action 30-30.

And so I was into guns and all that stuff anyway.

And...

I'm in Panama and tensions are rising.

They had roughed up a Marine and his wife.

I think they had killed somebody else.

And so Noriega was getting at odds with the American government.

And I think, you know, you hear about it.

I can't say why, but Noriega finally just told the government, I'm not your bull-whippin' boy anymore, and decides he's not gonna listen to them anymore.

And as we know, Noriega was a big part of trafficking cocaine and all those things through Panama, all that stuff.

And so Noriega had his dignity battalion.

And the US, the tensions were rising.

And so went to bed one night.

I think it was not long before Christmas and just a couple of days before Christmas.

And my mom comes in and wakes me up at like 1 in the morning.

And she says, Mark, they're bombing.

They're bombing.

And so we had the 10th floor on this place called Punta Paitia, which is out on the point of part of Panama City that overlooks the bay into old Panama.